A6 - Sunday News, December 28, 1980

Save our forests

‘With the future of B.C.’s most vital
resource -- the forests -- already endangered
through prolonged mismanagement, the
provincial government is selling valuable
forest land to hobby farmers seeking tax
shelters.

It's high time Victoria lowered its
propaganda screen and came clean with
frank answers to some simple questions.
Such as:

eHow many acres of mature timber remain
in Crown tenure?

eHow much planting has been done by
private industry and the Forest Service? And
what is the overall survival rate?

Are Tree Farm Licence holders fulfilling
their planting and other obligations?

eHow many acres are harvested each year,
including fire losses?

eHow much does the Crown collect in
direct and indirect taxes from B.C.'s forests?

eWhat percentage of that revenue is
devoted to regeneration and protection?

Why are forest jobs like fire-fighting and
planting regarding merely as a means of
providing emergency employment?

eAre penalties provided by law levied
against Tree Farm Licence holders who
ignore licence requirements?

eWhy isn't the use of forest waste to
produce alcohol and gasohol being given top
priority?

Professional foresters and _ en-
vironmentalists know most of the disturbing
answers already, even though some of the
former aren't talking. All other British
Columbians are entitled to know the truth
about their forest heritage -- and to use their

political clout to save it while there's still
time!

Man of the year

Are governments still responsible for what
happens to the governed? If so, there can be
no doubt about The Man of the Year. With
11% inflation, a 1930s dollar, high unem-
ployment and interest rates heading for the
moon, the name in the envelope has to be
Finance Minister Allan MacEachen.

Mr. MacEachen thoroughly deserves
1980. Whether 1980 and its survivors deserve
Mr. MacEachen fs a very different matter.

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By DEB van der GRACHT

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
British Columbia Premier
Bill Bennett appears content
to do in 1981 what many
claim he did in 1980 — hitch
his wagon to Alberta's and
leave the driving in the
constitution wrangle to
colleague Peter Lougheed.

But New Democratic
Party leader Dave Barrett
and others argue Bennett has
gone too far in handing over
the western reins of the
current debate to the
Alberta premier.

With NDP strength
growing mainly at the ex-
pense of the ruling Social
Credit Party, Bennett
ignores their concerns about
the province's constitutional
future at his own increasing
political peril.

NDP MLAs admit there
are similarities which could
link the two provinces on the
same side in their battle with
a distant Liberal government

for a “fair deal” from
Confederation.
Both have legitimate

grievances about inadequate
regional representation on
national institutions such as
the Senate, the Bank of
Canada or the Canadian
Radio-Television and Tele-
communications Com-
mission, they say.

Both would gain
revised freight rates

from
and

more control over rail lines
and port development in a
transportation system vital
to the
health.

west's economic

SELF-HEALTH DEPT.:
Next tame you buy Vit ©
tablets from your frendly
neighborhood druggist or
department store the
chances are high that they'll
have been made by West
Vans Lesile Strfkhe and his
Buys just down the road
whereby hangs one of the
North Shore's lesser known
industrial success stories

Leshe tis gm oof Stantey
Drug Products Lid in the
1300) block = Matin North
Van which now ranks as the
biggest non prescription
drug manufacturer in
western ( anada and has just
moved into the Pacific Rim
export market with Japan as
Us first

customer

there for

vitamins

In addition to
end

vitamins

other natural

food
supplements

makes

the Company

Cute yournell
houschold  omediations a
line Of vetermanan supplies

and skin care products used

in hospitals Business as
booming but you Il be hard
pul to om oto find the name
Stanley on any drugstore
package The reason some
60% of the firms business
centres on supplying house
brands sold under

private
tetatlersa as
Western

labels by
Shoppers

such

Drag

And Alberta and British

~~ —---€Cotumbia would have much- -

to lose, both in dollars and
power, if the federal govern-
ment gave itself a larger
piece of the resource
ownership pie as it applies to
natural gas, 98 per cent of
which is produced in the two
provinces.

But there are differences
as well, says NDP MLA
Stuart Leggatt.

“Our premier seems
content to play a subservient
role to Lougheed at the
(constitutional) bargaining
table in an underlying belief
that our interests are one
and the same,” he says.

“But we're different from
Alberta. We import most of
our oil, we're not sufficient
in oil as Alberta is. So in the
energy side of things, we're
in different positions.”

British Columbians
generally also seemed more
willing than Albertans to
share their good resource
fortune with the rest of the
country, says Leggatt.

“A good number of people
in B.C. don't believe Bennett
represents the true feeling of
the province.”

His leader has put it less
diplomatically.

In a November speech to
the B.C. Federation § of
Labor's annual convention
Barrett blasted Bennett for
standing by while Lougheed
fought the federal govern-
ment on behalf of the multi-
national oil companies.

“We see Sheik of Alberta
Peter Lougheed standing up
there fighting for western

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Canadians, and his puppet
from- B.C. saying. ‘I'l go
along with you, Pete, tell me
what to do.’”
On another occasion,
Barrett referred to his

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

Mart the
Woodward $
Stanley now markels more
than 300 products as far east
as Manitoba and Leslie an
enthusiastic Scout booster
when hes not busy in the pill
factory sees to it that the
Scouts “Be Prepared” motto
is strictly observed in the
plant itself Every product ts

Hay and

subjected to 28 in-house
checks before being
released In addition a
sample oof every batch
produced is kept for five
years with

complete
documentation on

ingredients and a record of

supervisors and manufac
turing details

It esidentl, pays off
They ve never had a

gosermment recall on one of
thew products in the firms
28 year history Fat) your
hearts out (>M and Ford

/ymurgy's Firet Law of
F volving Systems Dynamics:
Onee you open a can of
worms the only way to
recan them is to use Bp larger
can (Thanks again Brian
( oldwells!)

The Save Howe Sound
Society dedicated te
fighting nasty things lhe
Open pit mining on three

quarters of Goambier Island

and a mooted petrochemical
complex-cum-tanker port at
Britannia Beach. urges you
to join the battle by writing a
hands-off Howe-Sound letter
of your own to Premier Bill
Bennett, Environment
Minister Stephen Rogers and

vour local MLA’ The ad-
dress is Parliament
Buildings Victoria B ¢
VBV 1X4

Now offirerally in
corporated the Society is

sporting a nice new logo on
its letterhead
and waves

&@ mountains
theme strongly
reminiscent of Park Royal's
emblem They re also
seeking additional members

to carry on the war at a
modest five bucks a year
For further info call
President Doreen Wakely
(921 9121) of her vice Tom
Sewell (921 7521)

Por seniors whod like to
start off «hterally: on the

night foot in the New Year
Shirley Caner has a special
class starting January ‘ at
West Van laitted Church |
covers movements

lo assist
balance reduce stress and
promote flexibility an
cnervuine khonaw an
hincsiatrics Teo learn
more call Shirley at ¥22

NSA]

ennett jibed for ‘me-too-ism’

political opponent as “a me-
too Lougheed hoping he can...
get British Columbians going
into a crusade against Ot-

tawa so they won't pitch him
out.”

San Francisco jams an ~:
average of more than 8,000
motor vehicles into each of
its 45 square miles.

Switzerland has not
participated in armed
conflict since the end of the
Napoleonic wars in 1815.

CULTURAL PAY-OFF:
Congratulations to 1S North
Shorers whore been
awarded grants between
$450 and $1 SOU by the BC.
Cultural Services Fund
‘which in turn is funded by
the lottemes! to study music.
drama. visual arts and dance
at accredited institutions
anywhere inthe world From
North Van David Crist,
Malcolm MacPhail. Irene
Rosnes, Laara Cassels,
Desmond Hoeblg. (wen-
dolen Hoebig. Pamela
Koropatnich, Paula
Nishikawara, Susan Olsen,
Ronald Sandor, Margaret
Witzsche, Bonita Wolokoff.
From West Van Mark
Cleverley, Karen Gerbrecht
and Ronald Haney

Memo to. local super:
market managers please
stop putting the price sucker
the English ooking
Instructions oon packa ed
meals Its not very helpful to
be told the product should
be putin a 425 degree oven
for $1 OS minutes

over

WRIGHT OR WRONG!
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on what most of us wind Uf
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